European Athletics Championships 1990/400 m hurdles for men

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 27th (preliminary) August 28th (semi-finals) August 29th (final)
Medalist Kriss Akabusi ( GBR )   Sven Nylander ( SWE )   Niklas Wallenlind ( SWE )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the 1990 European Athletics Championships was held from August 27 to 29, 1990 in the Poljud stadium in Split .

In this competition, two medals, silver and bronze, went to the Swedish hurdlers. The European champion was the Briton Kriss Akabusi . He won Sven Nylander before third in the European Championship in 1986 . Third place went to Niklas Wallenlind .

Existing records

World record	47.02 s	Edwin Moses	Koblenz , FR Germany	August 31, 1983
European record	47.48 s	Harald Schmid	EM Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982
			World Cup Rome , Italy	September 1, 1987
Championship record			EM Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

August 27, 1990

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kriss Akabusi	Great Britain	50.08
2	Vadim Zadoinow	Soviet Union	50.34
3	Koen Verlinde	Belgium	50.50
4th	Olaf Hense	BR Germany	50.74
5	Paweł Woźniak	Poland	51.09
6th	Vesa-Pekka Pihlavisto	Finland	51.59
7th	Santiago Fraga	Spain	52.00
DNF	Rok Kopitar	Yugoslavia

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Max Robertson	Great Britain	50.27
2	Carsten Koehrbrück	BR Germany	50.39
3	Stéphane Diagana	France	50.49
4th	Krasimir Demirev	Bulgaria	50.59
5	Mugur Mateescu	Romania	51.63
6th	Branislav Karaulic	Yugoslavia	53.26

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Edgar Itt	BR Germany	50.93
2	Jozef Kucej	Yugoslavia	51.01
3	Niklas Wallenlind	Sweden	51.06
4th	Daniel Ritter	Switzerland	51.24
5	Mauro Maurizi	Italy	51.27
6th	Alexander Belikov	Soviet Union	51.31
7th	Marc Dollendorf	Belgium	51.60

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sven Nylander	Sweden	50.28
2	José Alonso	Spain	50.36
3	Thomas Nyberg	Sweden	50.83
4th	Alexei Bazarov	Soviet Union	50.84
5	Athanásios Kaloyiánnis	Greece	51.37
6th	Miro Kocuvan	Yugoslavia	51.37
7th	Pedro Rodrigues	Portugal	52.03

Semifinals

August 28, 1990

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kriss Akabusi	Great Britain	48.84
2	Stéphane Diagana	France	49.26
3	Vadim Zadoinow	Soviet Union	49.34
4th	José Alonso	Spain	49.92
5	Jozef Kucej	Yugoslavia	50.52
6th	Olaf Hense	BR Germany	50.53
7th	Paweł Woźniak	Poland	50.94
8th	Thomas Nyberg	Sweden	51.02

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Niklas Wallenlind	Sweden	48.80
2	Sven Nylander	Sweden	48.82
3	Carsten Koehrbrück	BR Germany	49.04
4th	Edgar Itt	BR Germany	49.24
5	Max Robertson	Great Britain	49.25
6th	Alexei Bazarov	Soviet Union	49.37
7th	Koen Verlinde	Belgium	49.90
8th	Krasimir Demirev	Bulgaria	50.39

final

August 29, 1990

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kriss Akabusi	Great Britain	47.92
2	Sven Nylander	Sweden	48.43
3	Niklas Wallenlind	Sweden	48.52 NU23R
4th	Vadim Zadoinow	Soviet Union	48.61
5	Stéphane Diagana	France	48.92 NU23R
6th	Carsten Koehrbrück	BR Germany	48.95
7th	José Alonso	Spain	49.77
8th	Edgar Itt	BR Germany	49.83

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• Men 400m Hurdles European Championship 1990 Split on todor66.com, accessed September 11, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1990 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 11, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 400m Hurdles European Championship 1990 Split, p. 453f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 11, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1990, 400 m hurdles men on sportschau.de, accessed on September 11, 2019
• 15th European Athletics Championships 1990 in Split, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on September 11, 2019

Video

• Men's 400m Hurdles Final European Champs in Split 1990 , published on September 9, 2015 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 11, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m hurdles men , accessed on September 11, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 400 m Hurdles Men , p. 18, Spanish / English (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on September 11, 2019